Improvement in barrel-washers



A. ZOLLER.

BARREL-WASHER.

No.175,403. Patented March 28,1876

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT ZOLLER, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,403, dated March 28, 1876; application filed January 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT ZOLLER, of Hohoken, in the county offludson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Barrel-Washer, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved barrel-washer. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same, and Fig. 3 a vertical transverse section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to a new stationary barrel washer or rinser; and consists in the 4 new construction of adjustable frame, and in the novel disposition of water-pipe with reference to the frame, and application of a selfacting valve, all as hereinafter more fully described.

The letter A, in the drawing, represents the frame of my improved barrel washer, the same being made of wood or metal of suitable shape and size, but is'preferably constructed of four legs, a a, two horizontal side-bars or rails, I) b, and cross-braces 0 0.

Each of the two rails b b carries one or more crotches, B B, everyopposite pair of crotches on the two rails constituting a buck for the support of a barrel to be washed. The inclined arms which constitute-the crotches are lengthwise adjustable on the rails b b, so that they can be set further apart for larger and closer together for smaller barrels or casks.

Set-screws d d, or equivalent devices, serve to fasten these adjustable crotches to the rails bin the desired position. The barrels or casks to be cleansed or washed are to be placed on these bucks in manner indicated in Fig. 1; and there may be but one such buck, or a suitable larger number of the same, formed on the same frame A, to hold one or more barrels at the same time. About midway between the notches of each buck, and in line with the bung-hole of the barrel to be washed, is a vertical pipe, 0, with a rose or sprinkler, e, at its upper end, which, as the barrel is placed on the buck with the bung-hole at the lower side, is toentersaid bung-hole, sothatthewashingor r'insing fluid maybe readily introduced into the barrel through such pipe 0. The pipe or pipes 0 branch from a suitable supply-pipe, which supplies the hot or cold water, steam, or other cleaning or washing liquid, to the pipe or pipes G, whence the same can flow into the barrel or barrels. f is a valve formed in the pipe 0. It is to be opened when the barrel has been properly put on, and closed when the same is taken 011'. I prefer to make this valve self-acting by connecting it with an upwardly projecting spring-rod, g, or the spring may bear directly upon the valve, the upper end of the rod 9 being in the way of the barrel. Thus the barrel, when placed upon the buck, presses upon the rod 9, and by its weight moves said rod down and opens the valve, whereupon the liquid immediately passes through the pipe 0 into the barrel. As the cleaned barrel is taken off it releases the rod 9, and the valve is shut automatically by the spring or its equivalent. This automatic-valve mechanism, when used, is of course applied to every pipe 0, or some pipes (J on the same frame A may have the automatic-valve mechanism, and others valves to be opened and closed by hand.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the frame A of a barrel washing machine with the adjustable crotches B B, which constitute an adjustable buck, substantially as specified.

2. The combination in a barrel-washing machine of the pipe (3, valve f, and spring-rod g, substantially as specified.

A. ZOLLER. 

